Quantitative Modeling of Earth Surface Processes

ISBN-13: 9780521855976 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 304 str.

Jon Pelletier

Opis

This advanced textbook describes quantitative techniques for modeling Earth surface processes in geomorphology.

Recenzje

'Jon Pelletier has authored a surprisingly detailed textbook which describes some of the most important, or, as he writes in the introduction, most effective and straightforward quantitative techniques for modeling Earth surface processes … the book provides its own refreshing trajectory … This particular path through the different realms of geomorphology provides the reader [with] a direct route through sophisticated ways [of] modeling Earth surface processes.' Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie

Spis treści

1. Preface; 2. Introduction; 3. The diffusion equation; 4. Flow routing; 5. The advection/wave equation; 6. Flexural isostasy; 7. Non-Newtonian flow equations; 8. Instabilities; 9. Stochastic processes; Appendix 1. Codes for solving the diffusion equation; Appendix 2. Codes for flow routing; Appendix 3. Codes for solving the advection equation; Appendix 4. Codes for solving the flexure equation; Appendix 5. Codes for modeling non-Newtonian flows; Appendix 6. Codes for modeling instabilities; Appendix 7. Codes for modeling stochastic processes; References; Index.